Producers supply larger quantities of any good at higher prices because:
a. prices signal product quality.
b. higher prices attract resources from other uses.
c. people are naturally lazy and refuse to give up their leisure.
d. price and quantity supplied are inversely related.
e. of the law of decreasing opportunity cost.
Answer: b. higher prices attract resources from other uses.
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a. Monarchs were the first bankers, lending out cash to help the poor learn a craft. b. Churches were the first bankers, lending out cash to help the poor learn a craft. c. Goldsmiths were the first bankers, and the paper receipts they issued for gold held on deposit became valued as money. d. Fishermen were the first bankers, and the paper receipts they issued for the fish they stored in the hulls of their ships became valued as money.
If an investor thinks interest rates are likely to rise, she would:
A. sell her bonds and hold more money. B. buy more bonds now and hold less money. C. not change her money holdings at all. D. not alter her bond portfolio until interest rates actually rise.
Under perfect competition
A. economic profits are greater than accounting profits. B. the most efficient output is always the most profitable level of output. C. the firms demand and marginal revenue curves are equal only in the short run. D. economic profits are always zero in the long run.
Average per-capita GDP in the richest, most prosperous economies is ________ times that of the average in the ________ economies
A) 95, low (poorest) income B) 95, lower-middle income C) 73, lower-middle income D) 44, low (poorest) income E) 69, low (poorest) income